The twin to the Chernobyl reactor...

CHERNOBYL DISASTER.

July 18, 1986

MOSCOW — CHERNOBYL DISASTER. The twin to the Chernobyl reactor destroyed in the world's worst nuclear disaster is shut down indefinitely but two others will go back on line in October as planned, the new station director said in a Pravda interview published Thursday. Eric Pozdyshev said new safety rules will be enforced. Izvestia said Thursday that evacuees from the villages of Cheremoshynya and Nevetskoye, inside the danger zone of 19 miles around Chernobyl, have returned home after helping military teams in a third and final decontamination of the settlements. Official casualty figures from the April disaster have not changed since June -- 26 deaths and 187 hospitalized with radiation sickness.